Opinion: Midterm Elections: Karl Rove’s Political Scenarios for 2015

Former Senior White House Advisor Karl Rove on what Republicans will do if they win control of Congress, and how President Obama is likely to respond. Photo: Getty Images

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... so what happens tomorrow what is if Republicans win the Senate ... but senior White House advisor Karl Rove also are up it was an election drew for the day ... Tuesday with me now live coral what's so what's with this scenario what if the GOP wins the Senate tomorrow so for seeing it again ... well the interesting thing in this can be in a column that soon appear thirsty Morin Wall Street Journal is ... forgiven little that of the dead ahead ... the most to the public the the the leadership stance in the House and Senate of the meeting for months ... to discuss exactly the scenario now ... obviously which the call's been a little preoccupied with his own race ... in speaker bathers been preoccupied with traveling the country ... to get additional Republicans that are steps of been ... sculpting eight ... an agenda of action a framework for action to take place ... it seems like a gutsy choices they can either copper mines that the present or they can be confrontational which I think in the two I'd actually they have to pass and are likely to take balls are likely to start by picking out things ... that are big important by which they will get Democrats support ... and hope that by passing a ... major to of of costs rise the Keystone XL pipeline ... that the president will say ok fine ominous sign ... but they're also my senses are interested in going baby dont wanna see confrontation ... for confrontation sake but they're not can it be afraid ... of pulling punches if you will want to install can this legislation are writing these pills ... and lining them up by simply saying ok if the president doesn't like the were not included in what was ... that the president that because he has a choice to ... deal with Chinese ever copper mines with the GOP it was after each cut cranes ... in the twenty ten midterms ... that he's not seeking reelection malice or so I think he's willing to compromise ... well and so far know ... and and that's the president is twenty two choices be stubborn be hyper partisan ... and into that things will happen you will have the lousy next two years ... and the blame will be on his desk ... the second of all he will set his party up in twenty sixteen in an awkward place or he could say you know one on the to be nimble and thoughtful and quick ... am I trying find areas of agreement ... I will be judicious in the use of my executive orders of the judicious and use my veto ... I'm likely to give executive orders and I'm likely to be those things ... but I'm not to be looking from the Serie confrontation I'm hoping ... that by beating cage and involved ... and noble that I can bend the Republicans don't know why traction in some instances ... get some things that I want and end up with the legacy of getting things done ... but ... we Ardi have a legacy ... that Obamacare is God Dodd Frank to what is it to spill out into an executive order on immigration and watched the deal people is held up well because he is he does so ... he will ruin the chances to get bipartisan agreement on a whole host of things but Hill said the Senate Democrats ... insisting that well known on Wall Hill said he'll set the Democrat up badly for twenty sixteen ... because there will be acrimony about these issues that will linger long after ... and the limits to what he can do with the Senate GOP aide Ted Cruz and the cars on the far right also ... see the seeds and enact executive order we view the five Republican party even immigration advocates like me ... don't think this oughta be done by the SEC to feel that it's not possible for him to do it ... he is not the lawmaker in chief is the chief executive job is to sign or veto the senses up to the Congress the United States to write ... but while it poison the well if he does acting like the trade well and as I was ... just the right to talk about that but this ... what's more important getting an executive order which will not stand the test of time ... we're getting the ... concrete legislation the gets sixty seventy eighty percent what he wants to get done on immigration ... if he does executive order on immigration if ... you think the Republicans are gonna sit there and say we ought to give the president ... the authority to craft trade agreements and get a Automatic uppers of them and they become the party of not only the Republican away lah that's that's that's why I think it's very import for the Republicans to set their own course ... recognizing the present gets to decision to save his own course ... but set their course ... don't be determined by his course he gets to choose ... and if he wants to be the naysayers he wants to be the veto were in chief if he wants to sit there and ... costly throw arrows Adam fine but don't be dissuaded from doing the right thing for the car while that is if you have runoffs in Louisiana and Georgia and we on the best result until January one through Congress get done in the lame duck session of the next in the nation did much to so the continuing resolution that said its funding the government picking on him ... I look I do think this think about this ... if if it is to control the Congress is going to be settled in the Senate is going to be settled by Louisiana and Georgia runoffs ... and that means an election will be fifty Republicans and forty eight Democrats ... and and Mary Landrieu will be sitting there ... the first one up ... sitting there with ... with forty five forty six percent of the vote on election night ... and the two Republicans with fifty three or fifty two or fifty four ... and in it that that that that's like blowing from that scene from the bridge of the River Kwai and all those pylons underneath the bridge start Clapton ... is exactly what's gonna happen if if if that's the case on election night ... that'll give this to fifty first unknown and then we will get Georgia with fifty seconds ... I think I don't know why I say this but I think the numbers are such ... this likely will have fifty one at least fifty one Republicans on election night ... the possibility of getting up to fifty three and Leah hurting your first it we did it without a